Word: queues
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wang the farmer now becomes the patrician head of the House of Lung. He returns to the country. He buys the Great House. He cuts off his queue in the western fashion. He dons silk. He forgets the land in his passion for Lotus (Tilly Losch), a sing-song girl whom he makes his second wife. To her he gives 0-lan's two pearls...
...gates of the Indianapolis Speedway opened at 6 a. m. First customers were two Illinois sisters named Ford who had been camping at the entrance in their sedan for three weeks, selling souvenir photographs of themselves to buyers farther back in the mile-long queue. By 9 o'clock the grandstands were almost full. Inside the oval of the 2 ½-mile brick track, remnants of the crowd of 168,000 wriggled into rows of bleachers on the tops of busses...
...clock one morning last week a line started to form outside Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. A concert was to be given that evening at 9. By noon the queue stretched halfway down a long city block. Some people brought campstools, boxes of lunch. By nightfall there was a call for extra police. The crowd grew until 5,000 persons were clamoring for admittance to standing room available for only 140. No one had ever foreseen a near-riot for a Philharmonic concert, not even for the U. S. farewell of Arturo Toscanini...
...Monte Carlo Ballet Russe performed time & again to half-empty houses. Last week the troupe was back in Manhattan for a two week stay at the Metropolitan Opera House. This time the bread and salt had brought an abundant harvest. There was a great clamor for tickets, a queue waiting for standing room. Persistent applause greeted the dancers who could spin with such grace, leap with such ease...
...dither of vernal gaiety that Mr. Dwight Wiman has brought to the Shubert Theatre one of the very best musical comedies in many a pasteboard moon. It's called "On Your Toes" and if it falls to hang the S. T. O. talisman outside its New York queue, George Joan Nathan is Pollyanna's brother...